The bill to authorise Benjamin Ray, junior, to collect the balances due him as sheriff and collector of Montgomery
county, was read the second time by especial order and will not pass.
    The supplementary act to an act to lay out and establish a road from the city of Annapolis to the city of Washington,
and to repeal the act therein mentioned, was read the second time by especial order and will pass.

    THE senate met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.   The proceedings of yesterday were read.
    The bill to aid and amend defects in the records, papers and proceedings, in the register of wills office
of Harford county, the amendments thereto, the bill to authorise Benjamin Ray, junior, to collect the balances
due him as sheriff and collector of Montgomery county, and the supplementary act to an act to lay out and establish
a road from the city of Annapolis to the city of Washington, and to repeal the act therein mentioned, were
sent to the house of delegates by the clerk.
    The clerk of the house of delegates delivers a bill, entitled, An act to revive and continue the acts of assembly
therein mentioned, a bill, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent
debtors, severally endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 17, 1800:  Read the first and second
" time by especial order and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
    Which were severally read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
And returns the bill relative to the jurisdiction of the court of appeals, endorsed; " By the house of delegates,
" December 17, 1800:  Read the first and second time by especial order and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
Ordered to be engrossed.
    The resolution in favour of the securities of Dennis Griffith, was read the second time and dissented from.
    The bill for ascertaining titles to land in certain cases, and for facilitating the tracing of titles in general,
was read the second time by especial order and will not pass.
    The bill for the relief of James Colquhoun, was read the second time by especial order and will pass with the
proposed amendment.
    Amendment proposed.  Strike out from the word "state" in the seventh line of the first page to the word
"and" in the thirteenth line of the same page.
    The bill to enable the trustees appointed by the last will and testament of doctor John Purnell, of Worcester
county, to sell and convey the lands therein directed to be sold, was read the second time by especial order and
will pass.
    The supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, was read the second
time by especial order and will pass with the proposed amendment.
    Amendment proposed.  After the word "Magruder" in the third line insert " Nathan Hughes."
    The bill to regulate the fees of constables in the city and county of Baltimore, was read the second time and
will not pass.
    The bill prescribing the form of the bond to be hereafter given by the clerks of the several counties of this
state, was read the second time by especial order and will pass with the proposed amendments.
    Amendments proposed.  Strike out the word "April" in the sixth line of the fifth page and insert "July."
Strike out the words " a misdemeanour" in the ninth line of the last page and insert " misbehaviour in office
within the meaning of the constitution."  Strike out the words " for a misdemeanour" in the ninth and tenth
lines same page and insert "such."  At the end of the bill add, " And be it enacted, That if any clerk who
hath received public money before the passage of this act, shall neglect to pay over the same to the treasurers of
the western and eastern shores respectively, before the first day of September next, such neglect shall be deemed,
taken and considered, to be a misbehaviour in office."
    The clerk of the house of delegates delivers a bill, entitled, An additional supplement tot he act, entitled, 
An act for the establishment and regulation of the levy courts in the several counties of this state, endorsed;
" By the house of delegates, December 17, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 18, 1800:  Read the second time by especial order and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, A supplemental act to the act to streighten and amend the post-road from Havre-de-Grace to
Baltimore-town, endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 18, 1800:  Read the first and second time by
" especial order and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
And the following resolutions: